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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
James Anthony Froude
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James Anthony Froude
Age: 75 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 23
Died: 1894
Died: January 1
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The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely and that, after all, is about all.
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The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies but sensible men will pay no attention to them.
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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it hunger, at least, is a reality.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.
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Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.
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What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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